Sean Goodsell Architects, who designed the MPavilion in Melbourne, are one of two Australian firms still in contention. Photo: Earl Carter

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed the list of architecture firms vying for its ambitious $450 million Sydney Modern project from 12 to five, and there are no Sydney firms in the running.

Two Australian firms are still in contention for the prestigious project - Kerry Hill Architects, based in Singapore and Perth, and the Melbourne-based Sean Goodsell Architects - but Sydney firm Candalepas Associates failed to make the cut.

The two Australian firms join Tokyo and Paris-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, Mumbai and Boston-based RMA Architects and Tokyo's SANAA, which designed Manhattan's New Museum of Contemporary Art Building, in stage two of the competition.

Confident: Art Gallery of NSW director Michael Brand says the Sydney Modern should be ready by 2021. Photo: Brett Hemmings

Stage one of the selection process was anonymous: the jury - which includes AGNSW director Michael Brand, Sydney architect Glenn Murcutt, Hetti Perkins and others - assessed high-level concepts submitted by each firm, without knowing from whom the concepts came.

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"Only after we picked the five concepts were we able to reveal whose concepts they were," Dr Brand said.

He added that while no Sydney firms made the finalists lists, Sydney architects are represented in the jury and were involved in drawing up guidelines for the competition. There is also potential for local firms to work with the ultimate winner as the process moves forward.

LMW Corporate Headquarters, in Caoimbatore, India, designed by RMA Architects. Photo: Rajesh Vora

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HARTFORD After recessions, architects are like crocuses.

When developers, governments or nonprofits hire architects, it's what they call a leading economic indicator those contracts will result in workers in hard hats with paychecks many months or a year down the road.

Since any recession, no matter what its cause, leads to a pull back in new construction, months of sustained growth in architecture firms' billings is a concrete sign of business optimism and investment.

Bob Emma, one of the two founders of Amenta Emma Architects, said clients with vision start talking about projects two or three years ahead of when they think they can afford to build, and those conversations were happening as early as 2011 and 2012.

But Connecticut's past that now, he said. "All clients are suddenly asking: 'Can you be in the ground by June?' They recognize the market's back."

Emma said, "Everything looks very rosy for, let's say, two years."

About 30 percent of the firm's work is new buildings though roughly half of its revenue comes from these larger jobs and the rest is either interior design or additions. They are looking to hire two architectural designers with two to 10 years' experience now. Often, they find those candidates at other second-tier cities around the country, but sometimes they recruit a professional from Boston who is tired of big-city costs.

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SERA Architects has been doing Silicon Valley work for clients including Stanford and Google for five years, spokesman Kip Richardson said. Some have said they would have more work for the firm if they had a full-time presence in the Bay Area.

"Now, there's a lot of work in Portland," Richardson said. "Were looking at the long-term and trying to build a more resilient company. Having more geographic diversity is part of that."

The 110 person firm also sees an opportunity to "export" the experience of designing in Portland to Silicon Valley, where Richardson said there's a move to urbanize and address issues around housing and transportation that have cropped up as the tech companies have grown.

Principal Clark Brockman will lead the office, which is expected to grow to three to six employees this year.

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